Researcher challenges myth of elderly independence
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Forty percent of San Franciscans over the age of 75 live alone and nearly one third of them live in poverty. "Luke," age 76, is one of them, living in an single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel in the Tenderloin and desperately wanting a one-bedroom apartment of his own.